On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace ascended to 135,890 feet wearing a pressure suit with life support system before exceeding the speed of sound in a record-breaking skydive. [J. Martin Harris]
A little more than two years after Felix Baumgartner's …

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The Warplane Nobody Wanted
By Stephan Wilkinson
The A-10 Warthog was built for one mission: close air support. But does a single-mission airplane still make sense today?
The Magnificent Seven…

Another Air Cadet
I really enjoyed the article in the September issue by Hadley Dixon, "Letters Home." Enclosed is a picture [above] of my uncle, Sam Byerley, in the 1940s, standing by a BT-14. I believe he's at the …

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